Art: Hirohito to Harvard

With a wave of his straw hat, gracious, gangling Director George Harold
Edgell, of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts stepped into the gondola of a
police motor-cycle at Cunard's Pier in East Boston last month and went
popping through the Sumner Tunnel to Huntington Avenue and the
Museum. Behind him in two bunting-draped trucks rumbled the most
valuable collection of Japanese art ever to have left Japan. It was the
nucleus of an exhibition which opened this week, and which should
rival in importance London's great Chinese art exhibition of last
winter....